AB0202 GUT MICROBIOTA DYSBIOSIS WERE CLOSELY CORRELATED WITH LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS AND CYTOKINES IN PATIENTS WITH INFLAMMATORY ARTHRITIS
Authors: J. Liu, S. X. Zhang, J. Qiao, R. Zhao, S. Song, T. Cheng, J. Wang, X. Li, C. Wang
Journal: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (2022)

Background Inflammatory arthritis includes a group of chronic conditions, particularly rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) [1] .Growing evidences link gut microbiota dysbiosis with the development of inflammatory arthritis [2] . Objectives The aim of this study was to discover the characters of microbiota in inflammatory arthritis patients and compare the relationship between the microbiota and peripheral lymphocyte subsets and cytokines. Methods Fecal samples were collected from 73 arthritis patients (13 PsA, 30 AS, 30 RA patients) and 140 sex- and age-matched healthy controls (HCs). The gut microbiota was studied by sequencing the V3-V4 variable regions of bacterial 16S rRNA genes by the Illumina Miseq PE300 system. Peripheral lymphocyte subsets in these participants were assessed by flow cytometry. Measures of disease activity such as erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP) were recorded. Alpha and Beta diversity was assessed using results from QIIME2 and gut microbiome profiles were compared using linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe). R (version 4.0.1) was used for comparative statistics, using pearson correlation analysis to assess the correlation between the relative abundance of genus in the sample and clinical parameters. Results Compared with HCs, the richness of gut microbiota (ACE and Chao 1) was significantly lower (p &lt; 0.05) in arthritis patients, and bacterial diversity including Shannon and Simpson indices (p &lt; 0.001) was also significant in arthritis decreased (Figure 1A). β-diversity analysis based on Bray-curtis distance revealed significant differences in microbial communities between arthritis and HCs (Figure 1B, r=0.098, p=0.001, ANOSIM). In addition, compared with HCs at the genus level, 9 bacterial groups were significantly different in PsA (p &lt; 0.05), 19 bacterial groups in AS (p &lt; 0.05), and 17 bacterial groups in RA(p &lt; 0.05) (Figure 1C). There was a significant positive correlation between CD4+T and Prevotella(p&lt;0.01), T and Prevotella(p&lt;0.05), Blautia(p&lt;0.05) as well as Megamonas(p&lt;0.05), Th17 and Prevotella(p&lt;0.01), CD8+T and Megamonas(p&lt;0.01), Th1 and Megamonas(p&lt;0.05), Prevotella(p&lt;0.01),Coprococcus(p&lt;0.05), B and Erysipelotricbaceae_UCG-003(p&lt;0.01), and Erysipelotricbaceae_UCG-003(p&lt;0.01), Anaerostipes(p&lt;0.01), CRP and Fusobacterium(p&lt;0.05) as well as Roseburia(p&lt;0.05). There were negative correlations between T and Erysipelotricbaceae_UCG-003 (p&lt;0.05),CD8+T and Fusobacterium(p&lt;0.01), CD4+T and Fusobacterium(p&lt;0.05), NK and Fusicatenibacter(p&lt;0.05). Conclusion The gut microbiota of patients with inflammatory arthritis differs from HC and also varies among individual arthritis, which was closely related to lymphocyte subsets. References [1]Wu X. Innate Lymphocytes in Inflammatory Arthritis[J]. Front Immunol, 2020, 11: 565275.DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.565275 [2]Breban M. Gut microbiota and inflammatory joint diseases[J]. Joint Bone Spine, 2016, 83(6): 645-649.DOI: 10.1016/j.jbspin.2016.04.005 Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 82001740). Disclosure of Interests None declared